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• The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

  Utada Hikaru

  Song, Writing, Done

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Lines, Firsts, Form

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• The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

  Derek Walcott

  Moving, Vocabulary, Islands

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.79, Macmillan

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• Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.

  Michel Legrand

  Thinking, Ghouls, Needs

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• Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

  Steven Bochco

  Beautiful, Emotional, Brain

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• I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.

  Enya

  Travel, Journey, Piano

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not one for walking the beaches humming a melody. I love the discipline of sitting in the studio, writing and listening. That is my domain.

  Enya

  Beach, Writing, Discipline

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.

  Tom Araya

  Thinking, Trying, Stills

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• We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

  Johannes Brahms

  Handle, Overload

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• I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

  Ken Hensley

  Writing, Firsts, Rhythm

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• For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

  Brian Eno

  Sound, Lines, Firsts

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• My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

  Paul Simon

  Guitar, Voice, Good Enough

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• Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Writing, Historical Novels, Asking

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• Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

  Michael W. Smith

  Records

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• Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.

  Ryan Tedder

  Song, Simple, Thinking

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• If I was writing a song one night, I would leave the studio and come back the next day, and if I could remember the same melody on the same song, it was definitely something worth working more on. If I couldn't remember it, maybe there was a purpose about that.

  Trentemøller

  Song, Writing, Night

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

  Stanley Clarke

  Song, Nice, Opportunity

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• Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

  Lee Hazlewood

  Records, Lows, Strings

  "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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• Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

  Rumi

  Play, Flutes, Felicity

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

  Lee Konitz

  Simple, Years, Play

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• I really love writing themes and melody.

  Trevor Rabin

  Writing, Theme

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• Music is the universal language, it evokes an emotion in all of us. That, we can all look at each other and we may not speak the same language, but that song or that melody can make us feel the same thing. And we can look at each other and agree and be like, "that did something for us". It makes us feel unified and connected.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Song, May, Looks

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

  Michio Kaku

  Symphony, Strings, Membranes

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• ... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.

  Keith Jarrett

  Taken, Player, Musician

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• Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he is disturbed himself, and there is a discord in the melody of his life. If he can quicken the feeling of another to joy or to gratitude, by that much he adds to his own life; he becomes himself by that much more alive. Whether conscious of it or not, his thought is affected for the better by the joy or gratitude of another, and his power and vitality increase thereby, and the music of his life grows more in harmony.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Gratitude, Joy, Feelings

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.27, Library of Alexandria

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